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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Most of this awkward time she has been quiet, with a dull gaze that harbors reproach, for him or herself or both. At one point she touches her dark shirt to brush off something we can't quite see - is it her chagrin, her defeat, the evidence of her lover's passion? Then, Jean plays the gentleman and makes a fatal mistake. He says, "I forgive you." And she explodes in a derisive giggle. Even more than the insult, he senses the threat. "Then this letter is not the worst of it?" he asks, and she replies, like a death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off With Their Hearts! | 7/14/2006 | See Source »

...Silent Night Sunday, July 9, 2:46 a.m.: Yelling was reported at 1306 Mass. Ave. Officers arrived and found all quiet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLICE LOG | 7/14/2006 | See Source »

...He’s simply a cosmopolitan intellectual that represents the very best of the Iranian tradition,” Qureshi said. “He struck me as a contemplative, quiet-spoken public intellectual...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Profs Petition to Free Iranian Colleague | 7/14/2006 | See Source »

...Somerset nursing home gave the front door guard pictures of 36 patients who might make a break for it. "I may be violating their civil rights," he says, "but many would be in danger on the streets." Administrators often see a breakout coming. Says Levine: "When residents get very quiet, we know they are thinking about leaving." Levine stopped one repeater by simply converting him from prisoner to guard. Now he is an "underground security agent" who watches the back door to see that no one slips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The New Runaways: Old Folks | 7/12/2006 | See Source »

...He’s simply a cosmopolitan intellectual that represents the very best of the Iranian tradition,” Qureshi said. “He struck me as a contemplative, quiet-spoken public intellectual...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Profs Petition for Release of Iranian-Canadian Scholar | 7/10/2006 | See Source »

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